If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

An inland site once baulked at filling a cylinder for me,because the O2 was a month out of date(this was 12months days).
They filled it as it was a rebreather O2 cylinder and they made it clear they would not usually and they shouldnt .....

The price and the <150 bar fill means they will never have to do me a favour again.

how bad was it? My buddy once paid £15 for a fill to 140 bar in his 3l O2 cylinder. Which had about 80/90 bar in when he dropped it in. £9 to top up I'd the worst I've paid (apart from a Red Sea live aboard where I missunderstood the pricing schema)

how bad was it? My buddy once paid £15 for a fill to 140 bar in his 3l O2 cylinder. Which had about 80/90 bar in when he dropped it in. £9 to top up I'd the worst I've paid (apart from a Red Sea live aboard where I missunderstood the pricing schema)

Not that bad, but at the time it was more than I was paying for boosted 200 bar from empty(<40bar) at the LDS for less than 100 bar.

When counting the months you include the month you are in, so April is correct. I know it is nit picking but if it was stamped May, it can technically be more than 15 months since the last O2 clean. BUT, SITA standards state that the O2 sticker should be punched out representing the date it was cleaned.www.sita.org.uk/pdf/sita-02-clean-2012-1.doc

All countries have different rules. There are countries where a 2 or 3 year interval for hydro is needed. In my country, the Netherlands it is every 5 year. Steel or ali or composite it doesn't matter. composite cylinders you can throw away 15 years after production, then you cannot retest them anymore.
The visual inspection must be done every year, but you can do it yourself. Oxygen clean is 12 months, but most shops don't give you stickers, so there is absolutely no way to proof it. You can clean cylinders and valves yourself too.
Most shops fill what you ask. There are some shops that wants nitrox stickers if you want nitrox in you cylinders (read: they want to sell the stickers). And M26 valves are happely not seen here. Sometimes shops try to sell, but always refuse

When counting the months you include the month you are in, so April is correct. I know it is nit picking but if it was stamped May, it can technically be more than 15 months since the last O2 clean. BUT, SITA standards state that the O2 sticker should be punched out representing the date it was cleaned.www.sita.org.uk/pdf/sita-02-clean-2012-1.doc

The O2 sticker on my cyl is punched out April 2016, so it's not the date it was cleaned.

So are the rules for the hydro and the O2 clean dates different?
Hydro and O2 tests done on 20th February 2015.
I got a full 2.5 years on the hydro, blue label says August 2017, which is 2 years and 6 months and 10 days.
I get April 16 on the O2 clean, which is 1 year 2 months and 10 days.
So I'll need to get 3 O2 cleans before the hydro is due in August 2017
I thought Hydro and 02 cleans were supposed to line up?

The O2 sticker on my cyl is punched out April 2016, so it's not the date it was cleaned.

So are the rules for the hydro and the O2 clean dates different?
Hydro and O2 tests done on 20th February 2015.
I got a full 2.5 years on the hydro, blue label says August 2017, which is 2 years and 6 months and 10 days.
I get April 16 on the O2 clean, which is 1 year 2 months and 10 days.
So I'll need to get 3 O2 cleans before the hydro is due in August 2017
I thought Hydro and 02 cleans were supposed to line up?

Service intervals are:
Hydro every 5 years
Visual Inspection at 2.5 years after the hydro
O2 clean lasts 15 months from the month done

Your blue label of August 2017 test should have been July
O2 clean should have been Feb 2015
You should have 1 O2 clean between hydro and visual, as long as it is done at the correct time.